The Iran War is eating Trump’s presidency

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump’s presidency.

We’ve seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush’s Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president’s predicament.

Now, the Iran War is different from Iraq. There is…